Speaker

Wouter de Kort

Wouter de Kort

Microsoft MVP | Author | Trainer | Speaker | ALM Ranger

Groningen, The Netherlands

Wouter de Kort works as a lead architect and consultant. He helps organizations stay on the cutting edge of software development. Wouter focuses on DevOps. He loves solving complex problems and helping other developers to grow. Wouter authored the book DevOps on the Microsoft stack and a couple of other books. Wouter is a Microsoft MVP and an ALM Ranger. You can find him on Twitter (@wouterdekort), on his blog at wouterdekort.com and at the various conferences where Wouter speaks.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

DevSecOps: Securing applications with DevOps

DevOps is all about delivering new features as fast as possible. But what if this means that you're also shipping security issues faster than ever? Security practices must speed up to keep pace with DevOps. This session shows you how you can increase your deployment frequency while still making sure that you ship secure applications. You'll learn best practices and principles for securing your application in a cloud world. You’ll also learn about tooling such as Whitesource and Azure Security Center. In the end, you’ll have a good idea of how to integrate security checks into DevOps and deliver more secure applications.

Don’t forget your database when doing Continuous Delivery

Organizations are beginning to deploy their applications in an automated way using DevOps. However, deploying the database seems to be an issue. Automating schema changes, migrating data between different versions and making sure that your application stays working while these deployments are happening is challenging. In this session you'll learn both architectural approaches and tooling support like SQL Server Data Tools and the RedGate Data Tools for different approaches to automatically deploying your database. We'll also test these changes and make sure you can deploy your application and your database with confidence.

DevOps Utopia

Software has eaten the world. As a company, the way you build and deliver software directly influences how successful you are going to be. Adopt modern practices like Kanban, Lean, distributed version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, integrated security checks, feature flags and real-time monitoring, and bring your team to the next level. In this session, you get an overview of what DevOps Utopia looks like, what it will do for your team and how you can get started.

Building a scalable Azure DevOps agent pool for thousands of pipelines

Would you be happy in a an Azure DevOps organization with 4.000 users, thousands of build and release pipelines and an average queue time of 6 hours? This was the challenge Wouter faced at a large enterprise customer and that he helped them solve. In this session, Wouter will show you how to build a fully automated, scalable agent pool with zero downtime deployments, automated patching and analytics. You will learn about a range of technologies like Packer, OData, Release Gates, Azure functions, Pipeline Decorators and more. And of course Wouter will also share some of the things that went wrong and what we learned from them.

Wouter de Kort

Microsoft MVP | Author | Trainer | Speaker | ALM Ranger

Groningen, The Netherlands